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The Need For Aerospace Structural Health Monitoring: A Review Of Aircraft Fatigue Accidents, Luke Pollock, Ayah Khalid Abdelwahab, John Murray, Graham Wild
The Need For Aerospace Structural Health Monitoring: A Review Of Aircraft Fatigue Accidents, Luke Pollock, Ayah Khalid Abdelwahab, John Murray, Graham Wild
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Aircraft accidents involving catastrophic fatigue failure have the potential for significant loss of life. The aim of this research was to investigate trends in aircraft fatigue failure accidents to inform aerospace Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system Research and Development (R&D). The research involved collecting 139 aircraft fatigue failure accident reports from the Aviation Safety Network database, which were coded using a directed content analysis. The trends and features of the categorical data were then explored using an ex-post facto study. The results showed that fatigue failure accidents have increased at a rate of (3.4 ± 0.6)×10-2 per year since the …